July 26, 2010
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iPhone auto-corrects ‘Gordian’ to ‘hoedown’. Apple need to invest in some classical education for their software engineers. via Tweets for week ending 2010-07-25 | JamesCousins.com.
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No, not the loveable short Gaul, but the shipwreck. From the BBC: Dr Jason Monaghan said Asterix is the most historically valuable Roman artefact in northern Europe. He said a public private partnership could be the way forward. Dr Monaghan said: “It’s a very exciting idea, but Guernsey is actually quite a small place and…
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I forgot to mention this one yesterday, but our favourite Cambridge Don has been adlected as a Fellow of the British Academy! She allowed herself a little boast on her blog last week, and rightly so! Congrats!
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Seen on Classicists (please send any responses to the people/institution mentioned in the post, not to rogueclassicism!) Greek Memories: Theory and Practice Department of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University Ritson Room, 27-28 September 2010 Memory, and its correlate, forgetting, are at the centre of a recent surge of studies focused on the construction of…
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This one’s been making the rounds of various lists, but in case you missed it … it’s a useful little tool for getting those Inscriptiones Graecae and Sylloge numbers in line (anyone else refer to them as ‘iggy’ and ‘ziggy’?)… Konkordanz IG – SEG
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